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SOJiCi OF THE DKIFTWEED.
Hero's to the homo that wis never, never
ours*
Toast it full and fairly when the winter
lowers.
Speak ye lew. my merry men. sitting at
Harken to ?h> drift in the roaring of tbe
sea*.
Here's to the Lfc we shall nover live on
earl It!
Cut for ?H awry, awry, ages ore the birth.
Set- the teeth and meet it. well, wind upon
the shore;
Like a lion, iu tlie face look the Nevermore!
Here's to the love we were never meant
to win!
.What of that ? A many shells have a pearl
within:
Some are mated with the gold in the light
of day:
Some ore buried fathoms deep in the sea9
away.
Here's to the selves we shall never, neve*he!
We're the drift of ih? world ar.d the tangle
t?i uir KIM.
It's far beyond the Pleiad. it's out beyond
the sun
Where the i cellos shall bo rooied when
the wander-year is don<?!
?Jessie Mackay. in Everybody's Magazine.
-VFwe Ways to Travel/ aianotssraeflBBtai*
? <A TRUE STORY.) ?
4M SX9 ? OBSESS ? 8ZBK8 9BM m? ?
? By Annie Hamilton Donnell. ?
' The Jong train drew into the "Dinner
Slntinn"' nnil hnn?rv nennlp hp
gan to bestir themselves. Families
and couples and single persona
stepped briskly down the aisle and
across the broad platform toward the
Dinner. Frances and Bruce and
Willie "Wisp were hungry people but
they did not bestir themselves. Their
dinner was in the basket in mother's
seat and did not begin with a capital
D?only splendid ones eaten at
round tables, in great rooms with
waiters flying about, began with capitals.
"Oh, dear." softly sighed Frances,
*'l wish we were rich!"
"So do I," sigb.?d Bruce, but not
softly. "Then we'd go 'cross there !
too, and eat our dinner out of plates
and knives and forks."
"And we'd step down out of our
parlor-car?not this common-car?
and when the conductor said, 'All
-aboard!' we'd fold up our napkins
like everything and run back to the
parlor-car and sit in big, soft seats.
T?roovoc twcro Txrictfnl oViwoa
thinking especially of Loubelle Weir.
Loubelle was in the parlor-car or else
across there in the great clattery, (
<5hattery, station restaurant. They
had seen her get on the train, stepping
daintily in her beautiful white
clothes. Her mother and a maid had
walked behind her. Then the parlorcar
had hidden her, and they them- (
selves had stepped up onto this com- .
^mon-car, with mother and the big
basket behind. *
"Dinner's ready!" mother called
from her seat. She had a white tow- ,
el spread on the scat beside her, and
grandmother's biscuit and cookies
and little round tarts laid out on it
She was smiling gayly. (
The three children crossed the aisle
-and sat down facing mother. They .
were hungry and grandmother's
things tasted good, but there was a
little bitter'flavor to them all, just
as if grandmother had made a mistake
and flavored' them with extract
of envy instead of vanila. While they |
sat and soberly munched, they were
thinking of Loubelle Weir and her ,
dinner with a capital D. and of the
parlor-car.
"I wish we would travel 'risto- 1
cratic'ly!" hurst out Bruce at length,
unable to restrain himself. "I wish
we were in pavlor-car. I don't like
traveling in common cars."
"I don't either," Frances agreed,
a little less tnmultuously. "I'd rath- \
er have a white dress on and sit in a
lovely cushioned chair with plenty 1
of room.-'
"I'd rawer, too?so'd I rawer," >
chimed in Willy Wisp, eager to join ,
the majority. "I wanter travel in a
cushion chair."
"Then we'd be with the nicest kind
of folks," Frances took it up again,
"not -with all kinds like this. It
would be lovely to be with the nicest
x kind."
"I know," Bruce cried, "we'd go on j
L m flvor lhm or..4 flvt I
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,wc go on a flyer, mother, if we were
rich? "We wouldn't go creeping along
this w&y, would we? No, sir!"
"How would you like to travel at
the rate of two miles an hour?in a
cupboard?with the pigs?"
The children turned like one child.
The voice was deep and pleasant and
came lrom directly behind. A kind
old face, framed in white hair and
beard, was nodding at them over the
seat-back.
"Well, how would you like that?"
Tepeated the deep voice. "Because
I know of three children that traveled
that way. They were relatives
of mine."
Th.) people from the restaurant
were drifting back into the car, but
' the children did not see them. They
only saw the kind old man who said
such remarkable tilings. His relatives
in a cupboard?with pigs!
And he was such a nice-looking old"
man and did not look poor at all. It
did not seem possible that his relatives
"If you are througi with your din- j
ner and your mother is willing, come j
into my scat and I will tell you how !
it happened," the deep voice went j
on pleasantly.
As they went they had a glimpse
through the window of Loubelle Weir j
crossing the station platform toward*
uer ])arjot -f;ar. i ne maiu fctepjeu
daintily behind.
"It was q-nfo a little v.hile ago? j
about a linndred and fifty years," the |
old gentleman began, his eyes twinkling
down at them "My great-grandmother
was about as old as you, 1
ehotild say," nodding at Frances,
"and she had two brothers younger
still. Her lather and mother moved
from one little town to another
There were no railroads, and they
must go in cart*: <lsawn by gentle,
plodding oxen --all the family and all
the furniture too.
"And the < hild> cn?the story has j
come defwn very straight?did not r,o !
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JU iuv J/iM IU1 ?.U. - ------- ...... .. Vj., I
old cupboard with a doer above and j
a door b'.lcw, M'ito a partition bo- I
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tween the division?. It is In existence
now. I have seen it many a
time. Well, the children's father
laid thi3 sreat cupboard down on its
back in the ox-cart and proceeded to
pack the three children in one of its
compartments, and the pi.?s"?the
old gentleman paused aran<aucau.y?
''the pigs in the other!
"And that was the way they traveled
all the way to the new home?
jog-jog. jog-jog, jog-jog. They must
have bumped about and the pigs must
have squealed. How would you have
liked thai? Not a very luxurious
way to travel, was it? But, do you
know, I rather expect those three little
shavers thought it was great fun.
Thought they were traveling in style,
most likely! And the pigs?it must
have been a great day for the pigs!"
France and Bruce and the Willy
Wisp went back soberly to their own
seats. They had forgotten Loubelle
and the maid and the dinner with a
capital D. Back and forth across
their minds jogged a great ox-cart
with a huge cupboard inside, on its
back, and in one end were three
children and in the other end were
pigs. They could hold their breaths j
and almost hear the children laugh
and the pigs squal. It was an interesting
story that the deep-voiced,
kind-faced, twinkly-eyed old man
had told.
"What a comfortable car this is!"
Frances said, by and by.
"How fast we go?most fly!" said
Bruce.
"And there are such nice folks in
the car."
"And nobody in the other end is
squealing "?The Interior.
JEWISH-GENTILE MARRIAGES.
Increasing in English Speaking Conntrios?Danger
to Zionist Movement.
The growth of intermarriage between
Jews and gentiles in recent
years has moved the Jewish Chronicle
of London to make a plea for
"strengthening the historic religious
conscience of our people."
A well know Jewish lecturer in an
inf-prvipw said the intermarriage of
Jews and gentiles had first assumed i
rotable proportions in Germany partiy
as a result of the increased social
intercourse of the gentiles and Jews
which followed the intellectual emancipation
of Jewry wrought by the popular
philosopher Moses Mendelssohn
and his contemporaries.
Figures show that it has affected
all English- speaking countries, particularly
New South Wales and other
Australian colonies. The figures are
most significant because they apply
only to marriages not solemnized in a
synagogue. There are thousands of
unions which are intermarriages in
fact though not technically so regarded,
because one of the parties accepted
the Jewish faith before the
ceremony, and the marriages are
therefore betw'een persons of the Jewish
religion if not of Jewish blood.
In such caj;es the children are seldom
lost to Judaism. But the consequences
too often is that the parents
settle their differences by ignoring
religion altogether and do not'
bring up their children as adherents
either to Judaism or to Christianity.
These facts are of course powerful'
arguments in the mouths of Zionists
and to some extent account for the
rapid flocking of intellectual Jews to
their banner. The Jewish people are
beginning to believe, this authority
says, that so long a9 they remain
dispersed without territorial foothold
the amenities of modern civilization
are a greater danger to their existence
than the confinement of the
ghetto and the barbarities of the
torch and the thumbscrews of the pogrom.
? 1Ua*to Tti unorl
J.1IC n Vi ill vn
A muscular Irishman strolled into
the civil service examination room,
where candidates for the police force
ire put to a physical test.
"Strip," ordered the police surgeon.
"What's that!" demanded the uninitiated.
"Get your clothes off, and be ruick
about it," -said the doctor.
The Irishman disrobed, and permitted
the doctor to measure his
chest and legs and to pound his
back.
"Hop over this' bar," ordered the
doctor.
The man did his best, landing on
his back.
'"Now double uj? with your knees
and touch the floor with both hands."
He sprawled, face downward, on
the floor. He was indignant but silent.
"Jump under this cold shower,"
ordered the doctor.
"Sure, that's funny," muttered the
applicant.
"Now run around the room ten
times +o test your heart and wind,"
directed the doctor.
The candidate rebelled. "I'll not.
I'll sthay single."
'Single?" asked the doctor, surprised.
"Sure," said the Irishman, "what's
all this fussing got to do with a marriage
license!"
He had strayed into the wrong bureau.?New
England Guide.
A Chance For Hens.
A new use has been found for the
domestic hen. The shells of the diurnal
egg can be used as a mantle foi
the Hame of acetylene. A French
inventor, Emile Louis Andre, has
proved by experiment that the shell
does not shatter or break, but is s
serviceable mantle, and emits a pleas
ant, soft light All that is needed is
to perforate the shell at ?ach end and
insert the burner. Where is the hen
that will lay <^gs with shell thin
< nout;h to serve as a substitute for
JiiH crdinar;/ gas; mantle??Rochester I
Post Express.
l>rnams of the Healthy.
There has been much <liscussion
as to whether one dreams only on
falling to sleep and during the act
of waking ; )), ?;r whether dreams
tafco iilnc .it any time during sleep
While not definitely determined as
yet, the evidence seems to be rathei
in favor of the views that one may
dreams at any time during the night,
or the whole night through. Dream
in^' is common to perfectly healthy
persons:, n11tl in KkcII iv no rvulcncq,
ol disorder.?Harper's Magazine.
New York City.?The chemisette
effect is always a pretty, attractive
and dainty one with the result that
waists including such are sure to be
in demand. This one is very simple
and includes the surplice fronts that
are so well liked while it is adapted
both to the gown and to the odd
waist. In the illustration soft finished
white mesh pique is trimmed
with bands of the same ornamented
with flat pearl buttons while the
chemisette is of embroidered muslin.
Such a simple blouse as this one,
however, can be made from a great
many materials and as there is a
choice allowed of three-quarter or
full length sleeves it is suited both
to afternoon and to morning wear.
All the many and attractive washable
materials are in every way appropriate
for immediate wear while a
little later, or even for traveling or
the mountains at the present time,
such materials as taffeta, light weight
flannel and the like would make up
most attractively and satisfactorily.
The chemisette being separate, can
be of any contrasting material that
may be liked or several can be made
to wear with one waist, so providing
change without difficulty.
The blouse is made with fronts and
back. The back is tucked for its entire
length and there is a trimming
band that finishes the neck and front
edges, the extensions on which conceal
the shoulder seams and combine
with the box pleats in the sleeves to
give the long line so necessary to
correct style. Whether the sleeves
are long or short they are laid in box
pleats at their lower edges and are
finished with straight cuffs. The
pointed belt is held by two large buttons.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and onehalf
yards twenty-seven or thirty- v
two or two and one-eighth yards forty-four
inches wide with three-quarter
yard eighteen inches wide for the
chomisctte.
The Short Skirt.
In spite of the fact that skirts were
predicted longer, there are very
many fashionable skirts built in a
vory short walking length. Many of
the skirts are very near the ankles,
and there are a few daring ones that
boldly display the shoe tops. The
English walking dresses are particularly
noticeable in this respect. There
are dresses made for fashionable
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that arc short and so full that they
rsring clear of the ankles, frankly
displaying a very handsome pair of
shce tops.
Snow White.
While this is by no means a white
asan, as many of its predecessors
bavo boon called, the white gown
and the all-white toilet are in strong
eridpnee among the most fashionablo
sets. But tho white gown with col
or?d accessories, such as a Iiat, para-!
sol, girdle and often coat and scarf
or ruff, Is more prominent. Rose
yhades, khaki color and the golden
browns and soft dull blues are popular
tones for such combinations.
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Charming Gowns.
TalHnsr aHvanfapo nf thfi simMarlfT
of line that characterizes house gowna
and evening gowns, some resourceful
women are converting their old evening
gowns into very charming negltgees.
\
Silk Scarfs Needed.
Long silk scarfs, to be lightl7
thrown about the head and shoulders
for such slight protection as is
needed in the early twilight, are to
be found in the most delightful tints
and in beautifully drapable textures;t
they are coquettish, picturesque or
demure, according to the style of the
wearer.
Linen Parasols.
Linen parasols in all colors are
seen this season and there are parasols
of fine materials never used before
for the purpose. The fluffy
white affair, consisting of a dotted
cover over a silk lining, is also seen,
and there is the parasol that is a mass
of lingerie ruffles. The making of
these is not at all difficult, providing
one has the frame and the material
upon which to operate.
Over Blouse With Girdle.
Each new variation of the over I
blouse seems a bit more attractive
than the last, and here is one which
Is grace itself and which can be utilized
for a whole host of lovely seasonable
materials. In the illustration
it is made of marquisette in one
of the beautiful new apricot shades
and is trimmed with applique and
with velvet, but while thin wools of
the sort are greatly in Togue and
there are a great many light weight
silks to be worn throughout the
warm weather, there are also innumerable
materials that can be made in
this /ay and which are exceedingly
charming and attractive in color and
in design. Again, the inner edges
of the waist are straight, and it consequently
can be made from bordered
material with singular success. The
postillion back is a feature of the
season, and it gives a smart touch
whenever becoming, but it is not obligatory,
and the plain girdle can be
made the finish if found more satis
factory. Beneath the waist can b6
worn any guimpe that may be liked,
and one of its many advantages is to
be found in the fact that it is suited
both to indoor occasions and to the
street.
The waist is made with two ovei
portions that are pleated at the shoulders
and gathered at the ends and
that are joined to a foundation girdle.
Over this foundation girdle the
draped one is arranged and the closing
is made invisibly at the back.
The postillion, which is optional, is
separate and when used is arranged
over the girdle at the back, attached
to position with ornamental buttons.
The quantity of material-required
for the medium size is two and onehalf
yards twenty-one, two yards
twenty-seven or one and one-eighth
yards forty-four inches wide with
two and one-half 3'ards of applique.
ES lilt Mil
JEM INJEIM
Miss Agnes Maguire, of Brooklyn
Drowned at Hopatcong, N. J.
CORONER CALLS IT SUICIDE
Says She Was Not Attacked?Father
Insists Muiiler Was Done?Disappeared
During a Stonn?She
Was a Schpol Teacher.
Lake Hopatcong, N. J.?The body
of Miss Agnes Maguire, the pretty
Brooklyn school teacher who mysteriously
disappeared during a storm
at Lake Hopatcong, was found in the
lake by Chief of Police Christie, who
had been dragging the lake all night.
It was found directly in front of
Camp Lookout, at Nolan's Point, not
far from the station of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey. It was near
tiiere tnat miss Maguire was last
seen.
James Garrison and William Snyder,
of Paterson, helped Constable
Christie to bring the body ashore and
carry it into the boathouse of Allen's
Hotel.
After viewing the body Coronex
Hitchins and Dr. Sabater, a New York
physician, decided there was no sign
of violence, and declared that in his
opinion Miss Maguire had committed
suicide, as it was not probable, he
said, that the girl could have wandered
into the water accidentally under
the influence of fright.
Despite the Coroner's decision the
dead girl's father refused to believe
that his daughter had taken her own
life, and demanded that a thorough
investigation be made by the authorities.
The news of the finding of the bod>
quickly spread and parties of campers
began tD set out for Nolan's Point
in laifnches and boats of every description.
Soon a big crowd had
gathered at the boathouse, but only a
few persons were permitted to see the
body.
Miss Maguire and her cousin, Chas.
Maguiro, of Dover, had driven tc
Camp Look Who's Here, near Nolan's
Point, in a buggy and were about tc
start for home when a thunder storn?
broke. ,
Maguire* left his cousin in the
buggy while he ran to the camp to get
a suit caste, and when he got back a
few minutes later she had disappeared.
The only person who saw th6
young woman after her cousin left
h$r was Mrs. Lockman, a guest at the
camp. Mrs. Lockman says $he saw
Miss Maguire leave the buggy, but
did not see which way she went.
The young woman was greatly
afraid of lightning, and there were
several terrifying flashes just before
she disappeared.
Miss Maguire had been in an extremely
nervous condition for a long
time and had been visiting her uncle's
home in an effort to regain her
health. It is believed that after hei
cousin left her she became terrified
by the) lightning and that when she
got out of the buggy she ran to the
lake shore, and. not knowing where
she was going, fell into the water and
was drowned.
Miss Agnes C. Maguire was twentyseven
years old. She i4ved with her
parents at 27 Second place, Brooklyn
and was a teacher in Public School
58.
John Maguire, the father of the
girl, is a tea merchant in business at
269 Columbia street, Brooklyn.
SHOW LION SEIZES WOMAN.
Escapes Into a Pittsburg Crowd and
Fatally Hurts Victim.
Pittsburg, Pa.?Mrs. Annr. Hucke.
an aged woman of this city, was
fatally injured and 1500 other persons
were thrown into a panic when
Cedar, a Hon at Luna Park, escaped
from his cage and charged a crowd
composed mostly of women and chil
dren. After a figtit lasting nrteen
minutes four policemen killed the
"beast, over fifty shots being fired at
him.
The lion show has been at the Park
only a short time, and Cedar, whc
was three and one-half years old, had
only recently been placed in captivity.
RAILROAD EARNINGS ENORMOUS
Gross Increase in 1906 $234,442,516
Over 1905.
New York City.?The gross earnings
of the railroads of the United
States during 1906. according tc
the fortieth number of Poor's
Manual, made the enormous Increase
over 1905 of $234,442,516. The net
earnings increased $104,723,224.
111 lb xxcia uuu? iu apiic ui a ucavj
increase in operating expenses due
to higher wages and increased cosl
of material. Over 71,000,000 more
people traveled by rail in 1906 thar
in the preceding year, while the railroads
moved 1,610,099,829 tons as
compared with 1,435,321,74S tons iu
the preceding year.
Nelson Morris, Big Fackcr, Dead.
Nelson Morris, the well-known
multi-millionaire packer, of Chicago,
died after an illness of several weeks.
He was a victim of kidney disease
and heart trouble. Mr. Morris was
born in Germany in 1840, and he
came to this country when eleven
years old, landing in Philadelphia
without a cent.
uovernor uienns warning;.
Governor Glenn returned to North
Carolina after telling the Southern
Railroad's representaties that they
are wasting time and money in the
hearings in New York in their fight
against reduced lares.
Arrested Fop Swindling.
After being warned by ihe police
to leave the city, J. Overton Paine, of
Newark, N J.,.was arrested in his
office on charge of swindling, and
paroled in the custody of his counsel.
He Is known as ?. "stock tipster."
The Field of Sport.
S. M. Rowland won the lawn tennis
championship of Maine.
S. C. Hildreth purchased the twoyear-old
colt Uncle from J. E. Madden
for $30,000.
The American motor boat Dixie
won trio uriusKi lncernacionai cup at
Southampton, England.
David Shaw's Alice Pointer won
the $10,000 purse for 2.12 pacers at
the Buffalo Grand Circuit meeting.
Miss May Sutton has decided not
to defend the lawn tennis cup whicbt |
she won last yea.-, at Newcastle-ouTyne.
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CHILD'S BODY JfiUTILATEO
Margaret Kuhlewind Killed by
Automobile, Victim cf Ghouls.
Coffin of Eight-Year-Old Profaned at
Bernardsville, N. J.?Body Dug
Up and Reburied by Vandals.
Bernardsville, N? J.?Through the
exhumation of the body of Margaret
Kuhlewind, one of the victims of the
fatal automobile wreck near Bernardsville
ten days before, it became
known that within a few hours after
the interment a fiend had desecrated
the grave. The body of the child
had been dug up and mutilated.
When he had finished hi3 ghoulish
work the brute threw the body back
into the coffin and cast it into the
grave. But in replacing the dirt and
flowers he did not arrange them as
they had been left, and this led to the
exhuming of the body.
The child was killed on August 14
while riding in the automobile of
Grant B. Schley, the broker. Thomas
Clark, Mr. Schley's chauffeur, had
picked up a party including the little
girl to give them a rids. He ran into
a telegraph pole and the child was
thrown out with the others. Her
death was instantaneous. Clark was
also killed instantly and Ralph Hazelton,
another occupant of the car, died
the next' day in a hospital, while Miss
Adelaide Pepper, of Brooklyn, and
Miss Anna Kuhlewind, a sister of
little Margaret, were seriously injured.
Three days later the body of the
child was buried in St. Bernard's
Episcopal Cemetery, where for years
the dead of the parish have lain undisturbed.
When the last word of the
funeral service had been spoken the
superintendent took the many floral
offerings and placed them on the
grave. He banked them higher at
the head of the grave than at the
foot.
While making his rounds the following
morning the superintendent
saw that the flowers had been displaced.
He looked, and the banking
of the grave, which he had attended
to, did not seem the same. He becamesconvinced
that some one had
been meddling.
While there was no proof that the
grave had been actually o.pened, he
reported the matter to William R.
Bonfield, one of the Cemetery Committee.
Mr. Bonfield decided to do
nothing until Richard V. Lindabury,
a lawyer, of New York City, who is
chairman of the Cemetery Committee,
returned to Bernardsville. Mr.
Lindabury arrived and ordered that
the grave be opened.
The aged father of the little girl
was asked to be present, as was the
undertaker, Isaiah Bower. When the
outer box of the coffin was reached it
was apparent that the grave had been
disturbed. The box had been securely
fastened by the undertaker, but
the lid was now found to be loose.
Then the coffin was taken out, and it,
too, showed signs of a ghoul's work.
It was not, however, until the coffin
was opened that the whole horror
was unfolded.
The little body was found to have
Koon thrAmn horlr into tha onffln wifli
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the shroud nearly torn from It. No
care had been used, and the casket,
large for the child, had been tossed
back into the grave. The body had
slid to the foot of the coffin and was
huddled in a heap.
The examination showed that the
fiend had taken the body from the
coffin and, using the under side of
the lid of the outer box as an operating
table, had made a slash with a
knife in a circular manner and then
removal the vital organs which h<?
wanted.
CAT'S BITE KILLS WOMAN.
She Had Ajttack of Hydrophobia at
Long Branch, N. J.
Long Branch, N. J.?Mrs. Rachel
D. Barry, who was bitten by a cat
seven weeks ago, died in her Eatontown
Boulevferd home, after enduring
great agony. Her nurse and physician
pronounced it the worst attack
of hydrophobia they had ever witnessed.
For hours before her death
she had to be strapped fast to the
bed to prevent her from breaking her
limbs.
Mrs. Earry was forty-six years old
and leaves five children. She was an
expert telegrapher, and when her husband
was station agent and paymaster
at Ovford, Pa., she frequently operated
the telegraph.
LONDON MARKET LOSSES.
Decline in 387 Stocks $680,000,000 ib
August?$1,723,000,000 This Year.
London.?The Eankers' Magazine
prints a table telling o? the millions
evaporated on the Stock Exchange by
the depreciation of securities, which
the editor likens to "a survey of a
district afflicted by some devastating
calamity."
For August the decline in 387 representative
stocks reached the staggering
total of 3680,000,000. This
makes an aggregate of $1,725,000,000
since the beginning of the year,
of which $555,000,000 is in American
railroad shares, $240,000,000 in British
funds and $180,000,000 in EngTioK
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Will Sacrifice a Submarine.
The British Admiralty is about to
sacrifice one of the earlier type of
Holland submarine boats to acquire
knowledge of the effect of mine explosions
upon a boat of that class.
TRAIN BRINGS DEATH TO TWO.
Philadelphian Driving Auto Instantly
Killed and Son Dies in Hospital.
Philadelphia.?Harry Gtirk died in
a hospital here from injuries received
when a train crashed into an automobile
on Five Mile B^ach, near Wildwood,
instantly killing his father,
Henry J. Gurk, of this city, who was
driving the machine. Mrs. Gurk, hei
brother-in-law, Waiter H. Gurk, and
his wife, who were also in the avtomobile,
escaped severe injury.
OK. C. H. POWELL DEAD.
Darin? Investigations in Carbolic
Poisoning at Greenwich, Conn.
Greenwich, Conn.?Dr. Seneca P.
Powell died at his home here in his
sixtieth year. Dr. Powell had b?en
ill for three years, dating from the
time when he announced to the m?dical
profession that dear alcohol wa3
an antidote for carbolic a?id poisoning.
Pie had frequently experimented
on himself. This is said to have undermined
his constitution.
Dr. Powell was a native of Alabama.
and was horn ou January 0. 18 4 s
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WASHINGTON.
The Acting Secretary of War advised
the President that the Canal
Commission's request to be permitted
to create a deficit might legally be
granted.
Governor Magoon. of Cuba, reported
to the War Department that
careful measures had been taken in
Cienfuegos to eradicate yellow fever.
Navy officials declared poor oil
supplied by independent dealers
caused the change in specifications V;Hg
for oil bids which favored the Standard
Oil Company. . >&#?
United Stat.e:i Navy officers declared
the average performance of
navy gunners with big guns was better
than the British.
The Secretary of the Treasury announced
that hereafter national depository
banks would be permitted
to use Philippine railway bonds, at
ninety per cent, of market value, as
security. "r'aH
It was announced at the offices of
the Panama Canal Commission that
work was proceeding so rapidly in
the canal zone that $8,000,000 more
was needed for the present year's expenses.
It wa3 announced in Washington
that because of the alleged transfer
of some of its property by the socalled
Powder Trust, the Government
had filed at Wilmington an amendment
to its petition. ' V;;S|j
Samuel Gompers said in Washington
that the American Federation of
Labor would probably bring counter
suit against the National Manufacturers'
Association, charging conspiracy.
The United States Government will
submit the Newfoundland fisheries
dispute to the Hague Conference for
arbitration with the consent of Great
Britain.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Vigorous measures to stamp out.
yellow fever are being taken in Cuba.
The War Department has advertised
for bids for batteries at Pearl
Harbor and Diamond Head, in
Hawaii. The bids will be opened
October 15. Bids for deepening
Honolulu harbor will be opened September
9.
Pulajaniam has been eradicated in
Tsland of Lev-te. P. I., for the first
time, it is said, since the American
occupation.
At Honolulu a reception was given ^*3
by Governor Carter to Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Straus and
Congessman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
Five thousand persons attended.
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Cuban liberals and conservatives
each accuse the others of getting up a
"fake" revolution to influence American
action in the island.
The armored cruiser squadron
sailed from Manila via Honolulu to
join Admiral Evans' fleet. :
The Philippine Legislature will be
called to assemble October 15". The
date was fixed to enable Secretary
Taft to be present.
DOMESTIC.
j Joseph L. McElroy, Postmaster ol
the House of Representatives, is
dead at his home, Delaware, Ohio.
Mr. McElroy was prominent in Ohio
politics for many years.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was entertained
by Newport society. f
President Roosevelt summoned
navy officials to Oyster Bay to confer
on the trip of the Atlantic battleship
fleet to the Pacific.
Congessman Samuel W. McCall at
the Marshfield (Mass.) Fair discussed
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ize all power at Washington, and
urged adherence to representative
government.
Secretary of State Elihu Root, on
the verge of a physical breakdown,
due to overwork, went to William
Muldoon's -farm, in Westchester
County, New York, to seek rest.
Secretary Taft in an address at
Lexington. Ky., urged equal franchise
privileges for negroes, and
called on the Solid South to drop
dead issues.
Mills Bros. & Co., of the New York
Stock Exchange, assigned as a result,
it is said, of a disagreement with
Richard A. .Canfield, the gambler, -:'g|
over his account. "7'|w
The "Sinking Fund Commission of
New York increased the interest rate
on city bonds to 4 V& per c6nt. and the
Mayor ordered heads of departments
to make no new contracts for expenditure
of money. ^$8
FOREIGN.
The American cruiser squadron
steamed from Yokohama, Japan,-for
San Francisco via Honolulu.
Frost was reported from many
points in the Canadian Northwest,
but no serious damage to crops, especially
to wheat, is feared, although
the price of wheat wen1; up at Toronto.
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It was reported from Berlin that
cholera had broken out in Shanghai, .*
and thai: several Europeans had succumbed
to the disease.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
in the West India Islands of Guadeloupe
and Dominica.
The Hague Peace Conference special
committee approved the proposi- ,
tion to establish an international
prize court.
The Transvaal Parliament voted to
buy the Cullinan diamond, valued at
$1,000,000, and give it to King Edward
as a mark of gratitude for the
recem c.us.uuiiuii.
A tablet in memory of those who
perished in the railway disaster at
Salisbury, England, last: year, was
unveiled in the ancient cathedral
there.
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The officers and men of the American
fleet received a flattering reception
at Yokahama by the Japanese ?
people.
M. Jules Camt'on, the French Ambassador
in BerJin, will go ti> .Nor- . ?
deney to confer with Prince von Bulow,
the German Imperial Chancellor,
on the Moroccan and other questions.
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Three Japanese, belonging to a
traveling acrobatic troupe, have been
arrested at Rostoff-on-Don, Russia,
with plans of fortifications and other *
secret military documents in meir
possession.
Confirmation is obtained, declares
a Berlin cable in the Paris edition of
the New York Herald, of the ieported
purpose of a Japanese bah* pool to
acquire the Philippines by "peaceful
conquest.''
I Prominent naval critics, insisting
that the gunnery of the British Na?y
is superior to that of the United
States, advocate publishing the comparative
records of the two countries
as an Incentive to improvement
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